WOW---Here are a few of the accomplishments of Texas businessman Victor Lattimore and the recent additions to the company's Board of Directors:
John Victor Lattimore, Jr.
Mr. Lattimore was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors on June 27, 2011. Since 1996, Mr. Lattimore has served as President and Chairman of the Board of Lattimore Properties, Inc. of Plano, Texas. From 1986 to 2011, he was President of Lattimore Materials Company, LP, whose operations included seven aggregate mines, 26 ready mix concrete plants, four rail terminals and over 400 mixer and haul trucks.
Bob Kerrey
Mr. Kerrey was appointed as a director on July 1, 2013. Mr. Kerrey served as Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987, and was later elected to two terms as U.S. Senator from Nebraska, retiring in 2000. While serving in the Senate, he sat on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, which exercises oversight authority over all U.S. intelligence agencies including the military intelligence program. A former member of the elite Navy SEAL Team, Governor Kerrey is a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor -- America's highest military honor.
Mark Crandall
Mr. Crandall was appointed as a director on June 27, 2013. Mr. Crandall co-founded Morgan Stanley's energy business in the early 1980s. In 1993 he became a founding partner in Trafigura, an energy trading company, which grew to $30 billion in sales and 1,000 employees in 58 offices worldwide.
General Tommy Franks
General Tommy Franks, former Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command was appointed to the company's Board of Directors on August 28, 2013. General Franks is a retired four-star General. He was promoted to Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command in June, 2000. The world knows General Franks best following the culmination of an almost four-decade military career that saw him lead American and Coalition troops in two strategically unprecedented campaigns in two years as Commander of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq.
The company is clearly building an experienced team to lead its emergence as a player in the rare earths supply chain industry, uniquely possessing valuable relationships capable of assisting them in working through the geo-political issues facing the US and its allies with regard to self sufficiency.
